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[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Religion and science are orthogonal. Science seeks to answer the question of "how?", while religion seeks to answer "why?"

Understanding the Big Bang all the way through evolution doesn't give an indication as to why all of this happened. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Science doesn't have an answer for these questions because these questions are orthogonal to science. Any kind of answer to this kind of question would constitute a religion.

It's really atheism (at least in the present iteration) that's doomed to failure. It's dependent on ignorance of basic philosophy, and attempts to derive any kind of morality based solely on science results in things like eugenics and an "the ends justify the means" kind of mentality. Atheist ethics have resulted in more deaths than all other religions combined. And yes, atheism is a religion, but the ignorance of atheists has resulted in them believing it isn't a religion even when it exhibits all the properties of a religion. It's just a shit religion, which is why it's doomed to fail.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i completely agree with the first two paragraphs, but i don’t quite understand what you mean in the third paragraph. could you elaborate on what you mean by the present iteration of atheism, how its like a religion, and why you think it’s doomed to fail? it sounds interesting and i haven’t heard much about it.

[-] walkercricket@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Religion and science are orthogonal. Science seeks to answer the question of "how?", while religion seeks to answer "why?"

Religion doesn't try to answer anything: it's just blind faith. You're not gonna try to tell me religious people are "looking for" anything. The definition of religion is "belief in a deity". It doesn't try to explain or find out anything.

It's dependent on ignorance of basic philosophy, and attempts to derive any kind of morality based solely on science results

Since when atheism prevents philosophy? Haven't you heard of atheist philosophers? They exist, they're not fairies, you know. About morality, it's still a subject and a lot of philosophers have different opinion, with the subjective or objective moral, relativistic moral, etc... And whatever you mean by "derive any kind of morality based solely on science results", it's still better than arbitrarily define a moral based on a book written by some people a long time ago to then enforce it for centuries, with violence if needed, and then when the bad atheists come to clean all the mess by making moral laws to have everybody end up agreeing on after few decades, claim it was just a misinterpretation of the texts or whatever, which is the dumbest excuse I've ever heard of.

Atheism isn't a religion either: atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of an unproven (and certainly unprovable) entity. So a lack of belief certainly didn't kill anybody.

And atheism was never the reason or the foundation of the sentence "the end justify the means", it existed long before atheism was even a concept.

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